Delivering writing into states of physicality centres Michael Dean's research into the political properties of language pertaining to authorship and autonomy. Specially-commissioned for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 designed by Peter Zumthor, Acts of Grass takes acting and reading as a means of delivering writing into physicality. Evoking subtle connections and parallels between the physicality of the printed script and the space of the garden, four acts attempt to function simultaneously, as both the outline of an intimacy which gave origin to the written work in the hand and a demonstration of an intimacy into which the work is delivered on being read. more...

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor discusses his groundbreaking design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, followed by a collaborative performance between Basel-based musician and composer Fritz Hauser and drummer Peter Conradin Zumthor. more...

On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Michelangelo Pistoletto will present a manifesto detailing how his work on time, everyday life, form and the abstract is grounded in his ongoing study of ethics. Pistoletto will also be in conversation with Gianna Nannini and the Serpentine Gallery directors, Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist. more...

The work of young, London-based artist Helen Marten is underpinned by an examination of contemporary social codes alongside reflections on mercantile grubbiness. In this spirit of cultural thievery, the artist reconfigures everyday impulses into new forms of material space. more...

The musical performances of the notorious piano-destroying, soft-toy-loving Charlemagne Palestine engage whole buildings. A contemporary of minimalists Phillip Glass & Steve Reich, Palestine considers himself a "maximalist", writing and performing intense ritualistic compositions such as his acclaimed Strumming Music (1974). Charlemagne will begin his celebration of his 66th birthday at The Serpentine Gallery with a special experimental concert. Please bring presents! more...

Bidoun Projects present a Shaabi-Music-Wedding-Dance-Party at the Serpentine Pavilion. To mark the opening of the Bidoun Library at the Serpentine Gallery, selected texts from the library will be read out to an accompaniment of loud music, in a celebration of unexpected and unusual pairings. This event is commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery as part of the Edgware Road Project. more...

Artist James Richards convenes an evening of experimental film and music exploring overlapping times and states of hypnosis through loops, repetitions and feedbacks across multiple formats and platforms. more...

Artist Becky Beasley's performative project, 13 pieces, 17 feet, centers on Eadweard Muybridge's extraordinary 1878 panoramic photograph of San Francisco, and a peculiar feature of railroad millionaire Charles Crocker's house. more...

The Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist Etel Adnan and friends convene an evening of readings, film screenings and music, derived from work underway at the Serpentine Gallery's Centre for Possible Studies. more...

Alexandre Singh’s The Alkahest Chapter 1 is a performance of an epic take in the style of Homer, more...

Wolfgang Tillmans has invited leading specialists to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of visibility and our perception of colour. more...

Writer Enrique Vila-Matas and artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster appear together for the first time in London. more...

John Maus of the musical groups Animal Collective, Panda Bear and Haunted Graffiti will present an evening of experimental music in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Jean Nouvel. more...

The Serpentine Gallery and the V&A stage a unique overnight event of talks, films, experiments and a midnight feast in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel. more...

The premiere of The Future’s Getting Old Like the Rest of Us, 48 mins. Commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery as part of the Skills Exchange project. more...

8pm Performed musical pieces: 3 to 7 - 196 (December 1974, 23mins 40sec), David Gibson, cello, recorded samples; Robert Engelbrecht of Nelly Boyd, cello live This historic piece is the first where Phill Niblock precisely tuned the musician with tuning... more...

Originally refused an export licence, Paradjanov’s extraordinary film traces the life of eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova more...

Drawing on fresh readings of Marxist and postmodern thought, renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen discusses his recent text more...

Artists’ collectives CAMP and no.w.here convene an evening of film screenings, derived from their work on the Serpentine Gallery’s ongoing project Edgware Road. more...

French artist Mathilde Rosier, known for work that intertwines voice, text and melody, restages her performance previously shown at Silberkuppe, Berlin. more...

Sauper’s film examines the 1960s experiment that introduced Nile Perch fish into Lake Victoria, the largest African lake shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda more...

A performance of The Party, a play by American artist Alexis Marguerite Teplin, with texts by Pablo Lafuente, Michael Ned Holte and Rachel Kushner. more...

Four world-weary middle-aged men decide to gorge themselves to death in one final, orgiastic weekend of sex and gourmet food. more...

Giles Round and Mark Aerial Waller present an evening that uses Barbet Schroeder’s counter-cultural film More, 1969, as a framework for a psychedelic presentation of music, sculpture and performance. more...

An evening of experimental music that responds to the architecture of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 more...

Berlin-based artist Keren Cytter screens her new film The Tenth Dish, followed by a performance Artism or Autism? with Andrew Kerton. more...

Film-maker Alexander Kluge presents an evening of short films and lectures that culminates in an 83-minute screening of his epic 570-minute film News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx–Eisenstein– Das Kapital, based on the work of James Joyce and Sergei Eisenstein. more...

Peter Gidal, London-based experimental film-maker and writer on aesthetics, chose a series of experimental films for ‘both their specificity and wondrous difference’. The title of the event, Aleatory Colour: Perception / Memory / Material refers to the material meaning of film, to its absolute presence in the moment of viewing, and new memories triggered by each film-maker’s particular sense of beauty and meaning. more...

Peter Gidal, London-based experimental filmmaker and writer on aesthetics, programmed two films to mark the opening of the exhibition Gerhard Richter – 4900 Colours: Version II. more...

London-based artists Celine Condorelli and Simon Popper presented an evening of entertainment that drew on the French composer and pianist Erik Satie’s concept of ‘furnishing music’. more...

An adaptation of the Theodore Dreiser novel. An American Tragedy whose anti-hero is the young up-and-comer George Eastman. While paying his dues at his uncle’s family business, Eastman becomes involved in a disastrous love triangle. George Stevens received numerous Academy Award nominations for both directing and producing A Place in the Sun. more...

This drama takes the form of a story told using documentary material as an intrinsic part of the narrative. In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera follows Judith, a newly divorced woman looking for a fresh start. more...

An evening of guests, ghosts and hosts was structured in three parts with individual performance by both artists, followed by their first collaborative project exploring a frequency developed by Friedrich Jürgenson (1903 - 87) to communicate directly with the dead. more...

Bullitt certificate 15 The classic 1968 thriller, starring Steve McQueen Rendezvous (a.k.a. C’etait un rendezvous) 1976, 9 mins Directed by Claude LeLouch In 1976, at the end of a film shoot, Claude LeLouch spontaneously filmed a mad dash through the... more...

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London-based artists Steven Claydon, Lis Rhodes and Emily Wardill presented an evening of films, lectures and live actions. Life is a Dream, a melodrama by Emily Wardill with live music by the band Nøught was followed by a screening of Dresden Dynamo by the experimental film-maker Lis Rhodes and Claydon's performance The Fictional Pixel. more...

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